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D. B. STROUSE. MECHANISM FOR DISPOSDING AND ARRANGING CIGARETTBS AS DELIVERED FROM CIGARETTE MACHINES.

Patented Sept. 14, 1897.

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1), BJSTROUSE. v MECHANISM FOR DISPOSING AND ARRANGING GIGARETTES AS DELIVERED FROM GIGARETTEMAOHINES.

No. 589,873. Patented Sept. l4,1897.

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V v 'D. BISTROUSE. I V MECHANISM FOR DISPOSING AND ARRANGING GIGARETTBS AS DELIVERED PROM CIGARETTE MACHINES;

No 589,873. Patented Sepfcg 14,1897;

r Us o to miss it .DEMETRIU'S 13. STRO'USE, OF SALEl i, VIRGINIA, jiSSiGN iii TO THE BOIZSALK MACHINE COMPAEYY, OF SAME PLACE.

MECHANISM FUR DlSPOSiNG AND ARRANGING CIGARETTES AS DELIVERED FRGM ClGARETTE-MACHWES.

SPECIFICATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 589,873, dated September 14, 189?. Application filed September 29, 1396- Serial No. 607,337 (No model.)

To all whom i ifncay con-corn: binetion of devices capable of attachment to Be ii; known that I, DEMETRIUS STROUSE, or use in connection with the deliver end of a citizen of the United Stat-es, residing in the a, cigarette-machine of any of the ordinary city of Salem, county of Roanoke, and Slate types Whicliznekes continuous cigarettes and of Virginia, have invented certain new and cuts them into indivic'iuai or shortlengths, 55;

useful Improvements in lliGQiifiiliSlll or Deeand it is nnnecessaryio describe oriiioscrate vices for Disposing and Arranging Cigarettes any part of such machine other than the end as They are Delivered from Cigereitediia- Where the cutting-oil device is located and the chines, fully described and represented ill'tile finished cigarettes are delivered.

following specification and accompanying A detailed description of the devices in 60 drawings, forming a, part of the some. their preferred form embodying the fezimres The present invention relates to tiioiclass of my invention will now be given in conof cigerette machines which operate by the neciion with the accompanying. drawings, continuous method so make ioog or continuformingaipert of this specification, as follows:

I 5 cos cigarettes and sevei'tliem into short mor in the drawings, Figure 1 is a, side elcva- 6 ketable lengths. tion of my construction in connection with the Heretofore, as oruie,ti1e severed cigarettes delivery filid crf a cigarette-machine, certain as theyare cutfrom the continuous cigarette pert-s being removed or brokenowey to show have been allowed to drop from the cutting the parts beyond. Fig. 2 is an elevation of 2c mechanism into a box or other receptacle in the some viewed in the direci-ion of the a,ra haphazard manner, forming an irregular row inFig. 1. 3 is edeioiisection ofoerpile or heap in which the cigarettes lie in eimin ports on line :0 cc of Fig. 1. Bio. aiis a, most ever 1 dircciion, and resulting in great detail seciiomof certain sort-s on the line y 'y inconvenience'in handling them for icspecof 1. Fig. 5 piss or top View. Fig.

tion and packing. G is a horizonmi section through line line 2 z 75,

It is the object of the present invention to of Fig. 1, looiiingdownwerd. 7 isa-deteil provide oconstrnction by which the individ- View of portions of the receiving-boxes and no.1 cigarettes as they are out from the conmechanism formoving chem rapidly, and Fi tinuouscigarette Slmii be conveyed laterally- 8 is a plan View of the some.

and deposiicd in a regular manner in con- Referring to the d mvings, A represents a 8i.- veniem; receptacles; and to this end my incottingo'fl knife, shown as disk-shaped, of a vention consists, generally stated, of an endcigarette-machine mounted upon a properlyless conveyor adapt-ed to receive the cigzo supported sixeft B driven bypulley Qwhicli rettes and devices bywiiieli the cigarettesere in turn is driven by El belt D, passing over .35 arranged, so that their ends wiliovcrhsngthe Wheel E on shaft edges of the conveyor; also an endless (3011- G is a continuous or long cigarette (made veyer adapted to receive and transport the; by eny mechanism adapted for this purpose, cigarettes having its discharge end arranged but not shown in the drawings) passing to move within in box or other receptacle through a supporting-tube lLwiiich is divided 40 adapted to receive and retain the cigarettes bya norrowslit in which the disiesliaped cut;- in regular reia-tion to each other, and means ter works to sever the cigarette into smokfor discharging the cigarettes from the conaole lengths, as I, and J is in guide or spout i'eyer also located within the box, and also extending from the delivery end of tube H means for qnicklynioving the receiving-boxes to the endless conveyor, hereinafter port-ionforward to bring a rear box into proper posiloriy described.

tion beneath the discharge. of the conveyor, iiiiving referred to so much of a cigarette all of which fest-ores andco' ibinaiions of demachine proper as is necessary for an underviccs, together with other dc oils of eonstrncstanding of the construction and operation of tion, being hereinafter fully described. the devices to which my invention especially 5o lll'yim'eniion may bcconsidcrcd nsocomrelates, I will now describe t-iiose devices in Ioc.

connection with the accompany drawings, as follows: g

1 represents an endless conveyor passing over wheels 2 and 3 and arranged to move transversely or laterally to the line. of the continuous cigarette. Preferably this endless conveyor is of the usual construction of chain belt and the wheels 2 and 3 are the usual form of sprocket-wheels for supporting and driving such bclts. Pre terably, also, the wheels 2 and 3 are of such size and so mounted relatively to each other that the upper branch of the chain bolt will move down an incline, as shown in Fig. 1.

The endless conveyor 1 is preferably provided with shallow receptacles or cups 4, having open ends, these receptacles being preferably shorter than the cigarettes to be reccived and carried therein and being secured to the conveyor at. equal distances from each other and in any desired number, the number varying according to the length and speed of the conveyexgand circumstances of use. If the conveyer'is a chain belt, one receptable may be secured to each link, as shown in the drawings. bent or struck from sheet metal and-riveted in place, and their top edges'are preferably bent/backward from the direction of their ad- Vance, so that if they should come in contact with the cigarettes as they pass over the wlieel 3 they would be less liable to tear or injure them. ,The conveyor 1 may be of any suitable construction and may be mounted and driven in any desired way to accomplish its purposes. As shown in the drawings, itis a chain belt passing over the sprocket-wheels 2 and 3, which may be arranged in any proper relation to each other and driven at the desired speed by suitable connection with the :,driving mechanism of the cigarette-machine,

or they may be driven by means independent of such machine.

As shown in the d rawings,the parts to which my invention specially relates are secured to a plate X, which is iixed by bolt-s or other- ,Wise to the delivery end of a cigarette-machine, and the endless conveyor is connected with the cutter-shaft of the cigarette-machine 50 and is driven in unison with the revolution of such shaft, the construction and connectionof the parts being as follows: The wheel 2 (which is the driving-wheel for the chain belt) is, as shown in the drawings, arbored upon astud 5, fixed to plate X, which is bolted or otherwise secured to the delivery end of a cigarette machine. The wheel 2 and the chain belt passing over the same are driven by ratchetavheel 6, secured to the extended hub 7-013 wheel 2, and is operated by a pawl 8, pivoted to pawl-lever 9, one of whose ends is loosely secured to hub 7, while its other end is pivot-ally attached to a connecting-rod 10, which in turii is pivoted to a crank-arm of wheel 11, which latter is mounted on shaft '2and is driven by belt 13, passing over pul- The receptacles are conveniently.

leys ll and (J, which latter pulllgy revolves the cutting-cit blade A, these pulleys being preferably of equal diameters, whereby the wheel 11 makes onerevolution and moves the ratchet-wheel (3 one notch and the chain belt one link forward at each revolution of the cutter-disk A. The teeth of the ratchetwheel (5 are equal in nuluberto the receptacles 4 on the chain belt or conveyor 1,whereby each.

receptacle can be brought opposite the delivery end of the guide J to receive a cigarette as often as the cutter-blade operates to sever or cut off a cigarette. A retaining-pawl 15 (shown in Fig. 1) is pivoted to the plate X to prevent an y backward rotation of the ratchetwheel.

The SillttllSplOGkQh-WllGQl 3, over which the conveyor 1 passes, is conveniently arbored in a fork 16, formed on thefree end of a bent arm 17, which is secured to plate X, as fully shown in Fig. 6. As before stated, the conveyer-receptacles 4 are preferably considerably short-er than the length of the cigarettes to be transported therein, and it is desirable to center thecigarettes, so that their ends will overhang the ends of the receptacles equally. For this purpose vertical guide-plates 18 are arranged on each side of the conveyer, extending from the exit end of the guide or spout J downward with and parallel to 'the edges of the convey'er and operate, in the first place, to furnish abutments on the one hand for the forward ends of the cigarettes as they are discharged from the guide J into the receptacles 4 and on the other hand for the rear ends of the cigarettes to prevent. them from rebounding too far toward the guide J,

whereby the cigarettes will be centered in the receptacles with their ends overhanging; and, in the second place, to provide side 7 guides for the cigarettes as they are conveyed downwardly to near the point of their dis charge from the conveyer. In Fig; 1 the rear plate 18 is shown extending from the end of the guide J to the sprocket-wheel 3, the corresponding front plate having been removed to show theparts beyond. The positions of plates 18 relatively to each other,

the edges of the conveyor, and the ends of' the cigarettes are shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The side guides 18 are, preferably provided with foot-plates 19, which lie nearly in aplane with or-slightly belowthe bottom of the receptacles 4 and operate to prevent the ends of the cigarettes from being caught between the edges of guides 18 and the ends of receptacles 4, especial] y the forward ends of the cigarettes as they are discharged from the guide J. The plates 18 and 11) are conveniently formed from a single strip of sheet metal by bending the saineinto L shape, and are secured in place by .rivcting or soldering them to pieces 20, which in turn are securedto the arm 17 or to any other fixed part of the mechanism.

eeee're (iieelmrg e-plelies 5:1, which are sepemterl frem eeell ether s1: eucly to permi the em; reg/er, hei; net; ii eigz-zrettes, L pass between them. These pi; e ere so slie-perl at heir ferward ends that as the een'reyer is deflected freni its path, to pass over the wheel 3 the 0verhanging ends e1 line cigarettes will be bmughi in Contact vane. the edges of the plates and; rem-med thereby while the'emweyer moves fromimdez: them, and the discharge-(l. reirlee will fir-3p down the inclined edges of the plates 21, ee seen in Fig. l.

The eigareties as they are discharged from the eenveyer may be deposited in regular ertle: in 'reeeirin glmxes which are preferably meveil. erep by step under the eenveyer, the

sexes being 01: such eensi ruct-ion lliat the Clireherge end oi the eonreyer works Within them, A comet-maiden .for this purpose is ehevrn in Figs. 1, 2, and 5, and consists of two endless chains 22, passing over spr0cket- Wheels 23 end 24, ihe upper branches of these chains running herizonta-lly and at the (le- Ell'fivil. (listen-2e beneath the lower edges 01' gileree 531 to enable ihe bettem of abox car-- riel by ihe eha'ims (0 pass freely beneath pleliee These chains, as SliGWZ'l in the (lrewinge, are driven frem wheels which are arizerecl an e stud. fixed fie plate X and are eem 'eniently driven byeraielietvliee]. :25, secured lael'm'e 26 and re ed etep b re'cep by pawl retecl to arm 28, which leosiely secured to the Wheel-slut and is operated by pawl-lever 2'53, pivoted to arm 30, which in turn is pirate-(l to plate X wi l is operated by & c'ieuhie cam secured to the hub of .raiehetwheel 6, slim-r11 in Figs. 1, 5, and 6. The e'nper lireuehes (if the chains are kept in he metal 31 iiien by passingever esupporingiehle secured to plate X, and this ramble provide-ll wiiali guides 33 u pen its edges to keep the receiving-boxes properly alineil as they are erlvancc-d almig and heneaili ihc eenveyer l. i

A receiver er box 34-, mlepiled is he PlllCuLl 1213011 11ml ieil along by the chain belts under the emlveyer l and of'such censirueiibn that i-lze liieeharge end of the eonreyer will he e021- trained and operate \riinin the hex to ehetrg'e the gerectes-irith regularity therein, shewn z-igs. l, 2, and 5, and consists of rile-r Dex with am open toe having;

its inie er vi'kltirslighciygreater ilimi the lei ill elf the cigarettes and having its; ends aeied e0 ullat the end, openings will be wide emmgli to clear the plates 21 when is fed :ileng. I

l he undersv'oed from the ilrawings lliaithe hex; fed along the opening in its contract-ed forward end will admit the plates 2i and the pernien 0f the eenveger herween said plates, and rhererifter i-hreiighcut the length. if the box the discharge end of 3258i Merl and shown, 01,

luiien 0f ilie eenve ie As Sher-J1: in the Cinm'ings,

l will reiilein is diseharge and e' n. will else cliion of (leuthe connections ales the pawl 27 to advance the chain heltezfii, the her; 34; is fed forward the distance he posed by ratchettetll 0f wheel (lurl: each complete revo .l so elm- 511% number 01' ei depeeii in v its e aliens will he equal in one-half of the cigarettes carried by ihe e01: veyer during one (1on1 pleie re'veluilien. hen the forward end of Lhe box is e ighiiy min l herencl the forward edge if 'lhe plates ii is in EOSlQlOil lGlQCQiYB thee armies are discharged. frem eonmyer, and 'l,l will he dispesecl and er mgeal with regal y in a pile 0r verideal 120W between the forward end of the b0; and ihe forward eilges of 1, 1e plates 21, the walls of the contracted ripening in the forwerd end of the 005; sustaining the pile in front and the edges of ihe plates 21in the rear, As ihe box is moral along additional steps make mliliijimml statiens empty will he left for additional rmrs or piles degesit; the (:lgllfiil gerreiverl that byble e 231, Whiehflhmu ei' cigarettes, and so on ihrouglmutthe length r of the box, the hex being easily filled with eigaretres arranged in regular Order to a height nearly equal iclhei; of bile discharging-plates 21.

ll hen one of i'iJG is eclvaneinghelleii ll the cenreyer lie reeeive cigarettes, are other receiver may he placed in position on The chain belts 22, wit-l: its lei-Ward end in eentaet Willi the rear eml cf the advance receiver, so as to he in pes. lOl-l to receive the cigarettes as soon pessihle aft-er the advance receiver has passed the ihe eonveyer. To prevent the een'fireeted ends of the reeei'r rs as they pass the discharge end oft-lie eenr r f emrlieplaeing the eigerenies and premix; Ellie cigarettes from hein deposited on the end Walls of the reeeivers,

in any suitable ay, as suddenly shoving ()Pili'ifiillll" the receivers fuz'werd b hand or 1. b 7

bythe sippliemiien of rzieelinnisin which will rapidly advance ihem the lesired distance.

convenient form: of mechanism is illustrated in l, 7, and of the drawings, and eensisl's generally of a device eons vructecl zmcl arranged i0 reeipreeziie liking the line of moraine ih J re fere mi letthe proper time i he lDl'UilgJi e eeuleet with them, so that they will "be rielal e :lleii iorward.

is e pawl e011- struelion pivoted to the (leper ez'irl an arm 36, which in turn pivotal to piel'e X, while be lower end is iivomlly connected to arm .37

n'eegh roll 39, the arm 37 being rigidly fixed lire hm; e't eel-chef e desirable thatthe receivers at this point should have a quick forward moveto arm 28, which hasa reciprocating vertical tion relatively to the position of the pawl, sov that as the receivers are advanced on the chain belts and just as the rear end of the forward receiver is filled with cigarettes the reciprocating pawl will drop behind the projection onv the rear box and its next forward throw will almost instantly shove both of the receivers forward the desired distance, which will depend largely upon the thickness of their end walls. Generally the forward and backward throw of the pawl should be about two inches, and the mechanism above described is preferably located between the plate X and the chain belts.

It is observed that the guide J maybe in-' clined at a much less angle than that shown in the drawingaso that the cigarettes will not descend rapidly and by gravity alone, but

may be slowly pushed along the guide and onto the conveyorby the following cigarettes. So, also,'by making slight changes in the dolivery end of the cigarotte'machine theguide J may be dispensed with and the conveyor be made to run directly beneath the cutting mechanism to receive the cigarettes as they are discharged therefrom.

lmthe construction shown in the drawings it is assumed that the cutting-off mechanism operates to sever a cigarette at each revolution of. the cutter A, and the conveyor 1 is advanced a step as often as a cigarette is severed. It is not, however, essential to my invention that the cutter sever a cigarette at each of its revolutions, but the movement of the conveyor should be so timed relatively to the operation of the cutting-off mechanism that it shall be advanced to receive asevored cigarette as often as one is out on from the continuous cigarette, although the cigarette delivered to the conveyor at any instant need not be the identical one which at'that instant isseverod, as explained above.

I do not wish to limit my invention-to thespecial construction of the various parts and devices as shown in the drawings and: de-

scribed herein, particularly the construction of the chain-belt conveyor, the receptacles 4, and the means for operating the same and the receivers, as the constructionand operation of these and many other parts may be materially varied and the principal and important features of my invention be retained,

which consists, essentially, in means for de-- livering a cigarette to an endless conveyor as often as a cigarette is severed by the cutting mechanism and conveying the cigarettes laterally and depositing them with regularity.

lvhat is claimed as new is- I 1. The combination with an endless cenveycr adapted to receive and convey cigarettes and an inclined guide, as J, connecting the conveyor with the cutting-oft mechanism of a cigarette-machine, of an' abutting plate 18 and footplate 19 arranged to act upon the forward end of the cigarettes as they are destantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination with an endless conveyor adapted-to receive and carry cigarettes and of less width than the length of the cigarettes, of means for centering the cigarettes transversely on such conveyor, and devices arranged-on each side of the conveyor and in the path of the overhanging ends of the cigarettes to remove the cigarettes from the conveyer.

I 3. Thecombination with an endless chain belt'providod with a series of receptacles, as 4, secured thereto and adapted to receive and carry cigarettes and of a less width than the length of the cigarettes, of devices for center-- ing the cigarettes in the rcceptacles,as they are rettesa-nd devices, as plates 1, arranged on each side of the discharge of the conveyor to remove the cigarettes therefrom, of a receiver adapted to contain the cigarettes and constructed and arranged to permit the discharge end of theconveyor. and devices for removing cigarettes therefromto'operate within the receiver, substantially as and for the purpose set forih.

5. The combination with a conveyor adapted to receive and carry cigarettes, of a receiver and means for advancing the same relatively to the conveyor and additional means for quickly advancing the receiver,

whereby its forward end will quickly pass the discharge end of the cofiveyer, for the pur- 1 pose set forth.

6. The combination with a conveyor for j cigarettes, of two receivers; means for 3.6- k vancing the same relatively to theconveyor, i andadditional means for quickly advancing I thereceivers, whereby thorear end of one 3 receiver and the forward end of the other will quickly pass the discharge of the conveyor, T ior' the purposeset forth. I p

1 -7. The" combination with a conveyor for cigarottes, boxes or other receptacles for rel ceiving the same fromthe conveyor and means for advancing the boxes relatively to l the conveyor, of a device constructed and arranged toreciprocate along'the line of movo-- mont of the boxes and at the proper time to 2 engage the boxes andp-ush them quickly for-- ward, for the pnrposmset forth. V 8. Thecomhinationwith .aboxor'oither redelivered thereto, so that their ends will overliver-ed from the'guide to the conveyor, sub- TOO rssww s ceptacle adflpted to receive cigarettes from reciprocating device inw engagement conveyer 01' other source of supply and. pro the, pmjeeiion an the be); ts suddanly push vided with a projection or lag as 40, means it; fo'sward, for the purpose set; forth.

fer advancing the D02; relatively to the 50111-66 DEMETBEIUS :3 ROUFJE. of supply, at a (1G'i 38,'&5 pawLl-Efi, means fer EVitnessek reciprocating the same alongtheiineof mbve- I. W. BONSAGK,

mom of the box and means for bringing the A. M. GOODE. 

